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Advances in the Understanding and Computation of Unsteady Transonic Flow

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Recent Advances in Aerodynamics

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This paper addresses two topics in unsteady transonic flow. The first is the determination of the aerodynamic response of airfoils to small, unsteady disturbances. The second is the effect of wind tunnel walls on unsteady transonic testing. The results that are presented derive from an investigation of unsteady transonic flow initiated at the University of Arizona in 1977, and that have continued there since then. While these studies were launched under the senior author’s direction, the principal contributions were made by the junior authors. Since 1981 the direction of this research has been the responsibility of Dr. K. Y. Fung. These studies are now coming to a close and it is our good fortune to have the opportunity to summarize the contributions they have made to the computation and understanding of unsteady transonic flows.

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  1. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA

    A. Richard Seebass

  2. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    K. Y. Fung & Stanislaw M. Przybytkowski

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA

    Anjaneyulu Krothapalli

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 94035, USA

    Charles A. Smith

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Seebass, A.R., Fung, K.Y., Przybytkowski, S.M. (1986). Advances in the Understanding and Computation of Unsteady Transonic Flow. In: Krothapalli, A., Smith, C.A. (eds) Recent Advances in Aerodynamics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4972-6_1

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